ArticlePloS one2022
Self-management of depression and anxiety amongst frail older adults in the United Kingdom: A qualitative study.
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- Real experiences and care needs of frail older patients: a systematic review of qualitative studies.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
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- What Do We Know About Prevention of Frailty in Women?American journal of lifestyle medicine · 2025Review
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Depression-The Vicious Mental Cycle.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Self-management strategies and care needs of patients with persistent depressive disorder and their informal caregivers: a multi-perspectives qualitative interview study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Unraveling the mediation role of frailty and depression in the relationship between social support and self-management among Chinese elderly COPD patients: a cross-sectional study.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2024Article
- Analysis of preoperative and postoperative depression and anxiety in patients with lumbar disc herniation with radiculopathy treated with percutaneous transforaminal endoscopic discectomy.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Latent profile analysis of depression in US adults with obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Chinese Community Home-Based Aging Institution Elders' Self-Management of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases and Its Interrelationships with Social Support, E-Health Literacy, and Self Efficacy: A Serial Multiple Mediation Model.Patient preference and adherence · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectivesDepression and anxiety are common in frail older people and are associated with high levels of morbidity and mortality, yet they typically face greater barriers to accessing mental health treatments than younger people and express preferences for self-managing their symptoms. This study aims to explore frail older adults' experiences of self-managing symptoms of depression and/or anxiety.
designQualitative semi-structured interviews, exploring experiences of depression and/or anxiety, ways participants self-managed these and the contexts within which this took place. Interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim.
participants28 frail older adults in the United Kingdom, purposively sampled for neighbourhood, frailty and symptoms of anxiety/depression. ANALYSIS: Thematic analysis to inductively derive themes from the data.
resultsOur findings suggest that frail older adults find maintaining independence, engaging in meaningful activities, and socialising and peer support important for self-managing depression and anxiety. These could all be adapted to the level of frailty experienced. Drawing on life experiences, addressing the perceived cause and faith were helpful in some situations and for some personalities. Distraction and avoidance were helpful for more severe symptoms or where the causes of symptoms could not be resolved. Self-management strategies were less well-established for anxiety symptoms, especially when linked to newer health fears and worries about the future.
conclusionsDeveloping services and sources of information that support and facilitate key therapeutic components of self-management, which align with older adults' preferred coping styles and take into account levels of frailty, may be a way of supporting frail older people waiting for mental health treatments or those who prefer not to access these. Greater awareness of anxiety and how it can be self-managed in frail older people is needed.
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